[tex-live] sudo tlmgr of TL 2009

[Norbert Preining]

On So, 03 Jan 2010, Christian Pleul wrote:
> I installed it with the user (chrisp) which was I created during installation and the following sudo command

Ok.

> After TeX Live installation, I modified the
> 
> .bashrc
> 
> of chrisp and added
> 
> PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2009/bin/i386-linux:\$PATH

And how should root then find tlmgr?

> This means, I think, either to add the right PATH setting to the .bashrc of root or change the privileges of the user chrisp?

Best would be to add the TeX Live stuff to the general path for all
users, or, if there is anyway only chrisp and root, add it to the 
PATH of root in its .bashrc.

> What would you suggest as the best way and how could it be done?

As said, if it is single as in  single single user, then you could
have installed it as user anyway.

Now you have to add that dir to root path, maybe only temporarily:
	sudo bash
	export PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2009/bin/i386-linux:$PATH
	tlmgr update --self --all

Best wishes

Norbert
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